Christgau is cool asshole though, cuz his bullshit is aphoristic. It doesn't waste much of your time and gives you a lil something to think about.

It's way better than a relatively amiable critic like Fantano who takes eight minutes to say "this album is pretty good, there were some good songs that sounded like so-and-so, but it's not very different from the last album" or smth.